Re: Shared page tables patch... some results

From: Diego Calleja
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 11:57:32 EST


El Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:34:07 +0200,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> Just booting into runlevel 5 and logging into gnome (without starting
> any apps) gets a sharing of 1284 pte pages! This means that five
> megabytes (!!) of memory is saved, and countless pagefaults are avoided.

It's possible to get the patch to test it? (saving memory is one of those
things that makes people want to try patches ;) It'd be interesting to see
how this affects to other (mine) environments.
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